Embattled Reason; Essays on Social Knowledge

BENDIX, Reinhard

Oxford Univ. Press

Max Weber An intellectual portrait

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

METHUEN CO.

Hardcover with dust jacket. VG/G. Dust jacket is edge chipped, worn and scuffed; covered with mylar.

Scholarship and partisanship;: Essays on Max Weber,

University of California Press

State and Society: A Reader in Comparative Political Sociology#(Campus 100)

Slight shelf and edge wear. Tiny edge tears mostly at edges. Some pencil marking on some pages. Most of the pages are clean. Binding is tight.

Work and Authority in Industry: Ideologies of Management in the Course of Industrialization

Business & Money

Economics

Nation-Building and Citizenship examines how states and civil societies interact in their formation of a new political community. Reinhard Bendix directs our attention to relations established between individual and state during nation-building. While the development of citizenship and the interplay between tradition and modernity are important in this process of social and political change, his key theme is the examination of authority patterns.Bendix explores in depth the possibilities of an alternative approach to the neo-evolutionary orientation many social scientists take in their analyses of the underdeveloped areas of the world. The subjects he discusses include transformations of Western European societies since medieval times, extension of citizenship to the lower classes, bureaucratization in the nation-state, private and public authority in Western Europe and Russia, aristocracies and development in Germany and Japan, and the development of public authority in India's political community. The book concludes with a reconsideration of ideas widely held about tradition, modernity, and modernization.In a new introduction, John Bendix writes that what continues to make this book relevant is not only what it can tell us about past and present nation-building, including the transformations of the 1980s and 1990s, but its more general messages about the nature of social and political transformations. Nation-Building and Citizenship is a necessary addition to the libraries of political scientists, sociologists, historians, and scholars of comparative studies.

Nation-Building and Citizenship: Studies of Our Changing Social Order

Anthropology

Univ. Of California Pr.

Nation Building and Citizenship: Studies of Our Changing Social Order

The purpose of this book is to make Weber's sociological work more accessible and more thematically coherent than it is either in the original or in translation. This volume is used as an introduction to the study of orignal Weber texts and gives the reader a systematic presentation of Weber's sociological studies.

Max Weber: An Intellectual Portrait

Roth, Guenther

Biographies & Memoirs

This work is available individually, or can be purchased as part of the 7 volume set "Max Weber: Classic Monographs,"

Max Weber: An intellectual portrait

From the Preface: The world in which we live has its roots far back in history, and as a world power America must come to terms with countries which were formed in their present mold long before the American, revolution. All those to whom an exploration of this historical background will appeal probably share with me an immediate empathy with the anguish of nation-building around the world. This book is a study of what that anguish meant in times past when countries were first developing their political institutions and when they turned more recently from royal authority to a popular mandate. The problems of developing such institutions are formidable, then as well as now. A scholarly concern with these problems must touch on many subjects in social stratification, religion, political sociology, and the history of ideas, and the book treats these and related themes in their specific historical contexts. This interpretive work is addressed not only to students of political development but also to the general reader who is interested in a large view of history. That reader is provided with sufficient detail and annotation so that the many diverse contexts with which this study deals can be understood. A thematic outline of the book is presented on the first pages of the introduction, which deals as well with the reasons for my approach to historical sociology.

Kings or People: Power and the Mandate to Rule

History

Asia

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